Remembering…

It is hard for me to imagine that it has been 19 years since I first read this touching quote from Robert Fulghum’s book - All I need to know I learned in Kindergarden. It touched my heart then and still does to this day. I hope you enjoy!

 

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do
and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not
at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the
sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don’t hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life – learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,
hold hands, and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody
really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the Styrofoam cup – they all die.
So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned – the biggest
word of all – LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any of those items and extrapolate it into
sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your
family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
Think what a better world it would be if
all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about
three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments
had a basic policy to always put thing back where
they found them and to clean up their own mess.

 And it is still true, no matter how old you are – when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. 

Life can be pretty darn simple when we really get down to it!   Cookies, milk and nap time for me!!

Always do your best!

This is the last of  The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Always do your best.  That’s all.  Period, end of the sentence.  No matter what we face in this life if we approach everything doing the best we can then there is no regret, shame or remorse. 

 The other three agreements, be impeccable with your word, don’t take things personally and don’t make assumptions can only become habits by you always doing your best. 

That does not mean that you will never fall short of these agreements but it does mean that you are growing in your awareness and becoming more in line with these intentions.  Like I said before, practice makes perfect and each and every opportunity is one for growth and awareness.  

I remember being taught as  a child that you have to, “do your best to be your best.”   So for me this is a lesson in remembering.

Peace be with you on this incredible journey!

Intention

Create the life you want!  We read it over and over again.  If it were so easy why isn’t everyone doing that? 

That is what Forgetting  2 Remember is all about. 

It is that easy,  if we don’t keep forgetting!  We all cycle through life as if we are on a roller coaster.  Remembering at times all that we are and all that we can create.  Then we hit the down of the ride and forget who we are, our purpose, our intention. 

I find it easier to remember if, each morning, I find a  moment to set my intention for the day.

I intend….to understand that it is never too late to discover purpose, it is never too late to strive for excellence, it is never too late to begin.  To begin now. 

Take a moment… what do you intend for YOUR  day?